Twenty-First Century Book Studies: The State of the Discipline

During the 25th annual Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)\nconference in 2017, held at the University of Victoria, Canada, Stevie Marsden and Rachel\nNoorda moderated a workshop on the topic of “The Twenty-First Century Book.” Six scholars\n(Beth Driscoll, Per Henningsgaard, Simone Murray, DeNel Rehberg-Sedo, Simon Rowberry and\nClaire Squires), whose research is predominantly positioned within the twenty-first century, were\ninvited to discuss the challenges and opportunities for study of the twenty-first century book.\nThe 2017 SHARP conference, “Technologies of the Book”, seemed the perfect setting to hold\nthis workshop. Not only did the conference theme complement many of the twenty-first century\nbook subjects discussed during the workshop, but as it was SHARP’s 25th annual conference, it\nwas imbued with reflection on the society’s past twenty-five years and the community of\nscholars it has developed. Indeed, SHARP membership data indicates that many of its members\nare interested in twenty-first century research and scholarship: thirty-four percent of SHARP\nmembers who indicated a historical period in their membership data listed the twenty-first \ncentury as a period of interest, either as an exclusive historical period of study or alongside other\nperiods, particularly the twentieth century. Thus twenty-first century book research is a\nsignificant area of SHARP research and a period of study that interests a growing group of\nSHARP members. However, the discussion of twenty-first century book research held during the\nworkshop indicated that there was a need for a fuller examination of the state of the discipline of\nthe twenty-first century book. Accordingly, this article will explore and examine current trends,\nthemes and critical discourse related to the twenty-first century of the book in order to explicate\nthe current state of twenty-first century book studies.

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